Wedding Ideas & Tips, Wedding Blog

10 Apr

Creative industrial wedding: Casey + David

categories Real Weddings

Creative industrial wedding | Photos by Emily Blake | 100 Layer Cake

We’re going to let Casey tell you all about the emotional and heartbreaking roller coaster they endured the night before their wedding later in the post. We want to help to celebrate their love by showing you how the day unfolded. They wanted to highlight some of their favorite things from both their previous home in Southern California, and new home in Portland. Their wedding venue was the perfect setting for an urban, rustic, and outdoors-y feeling wedding. Wildflowers, succulents, and moss covered stumps made up most of the decor while little pieces of Portland (locally grown lavender and coffee) were sent home with guests as wedding favors. So thankful Emily Blake shared this beauty with us! Hop on over and take a look at their gorgeous gallery of images.

Creative industrial wedding | Photos by Emily Blake | 100 Layer Cake

Her bridal bouquet recipe: orange & cream dahlias, succulents, blue hydrangea, white anemones, erygnium, plumosia, seeded eucalyptus, dusty miller, rosemary.

Creative industrial wedding | Photos by Emily Blake | 100 Layer Cake

Cream and ivory bridesmaid dresses | Photos by Emily Blake | 100 Layer Cake

Click here to view entire gallery of images!

9 Apr

Peach and cream Spring wedding ideas

categories Styled Shoots

Spring wedding ideas | 100 Layer Cake

The talented ladies that brought us this magnolia wedding inspiration shoot are back to share another beauty with us today. This time the concept plays on a simple star motif combined with coral colored accents – perfect for a spring wedding or garden party. The gorgeous Oscar de la Renta dress is complimented by the romantic florals by Rachel Mercier Flowers, and topped off with a sweet & simple hair piece made anemones and peach ginestra flowers.

Spring wedding ideas | 100 Layer Cake

9 Apr

Australian wedding workshop

categories Styled Shoots

Australian wedding workshop | Photos by Feather and Stone | 100 Layer Cake

Here’s what we love about the amazing wedding vendors we feature day in and day out – they’re not only working with lovely couples, they’re sharing their experience, knowledge and talent with anyone that wants to better understand & redefine their vision of who they are as an artist. Photography duo, Feather & Stone recently held their first Field Trip photography workshop this past January in Byron Bay, Australia. It was an incredibly humbling experience for them and feel it’s the start of something very special. We completely agree. Just take a look at the gorgeous gallery of images from their three day workshop.

Australian wedding workshop | Photos by Feather and Stone | 100 Layer Cake

Our Field Trips are designed to inspire, not just with pretty details & sweet philosophies, but by arming attendees with practical photographic skills, business skills and the old world skills of shooting analogue which promote inner confidence. We want to see a positive change in each person as an artist, whatever they choose that to be.

Australian wedding workshop | Photos by Feather and Stone | 100 Layer Cake

Click here to view entire gallery!

8 Apr

DIY milk bottle ideas

categories Sponsored Post

Milk bottle wedding ideas

We partnered with American Bridal to create a few really cute ideas using one of their many, many, many cute and inexpensive wedding favors, the vintage milk jar. Crafty brides, you’ll love this! You can take a modern approach by painting them, like we did here, and use them as decor, or you get a little more clever and create a cute package of essential oils for your bridesmaids. Aren’t they a super cute gift idea for showers or a day-of bridesmaid gift?

Milk bottle wedding ideas

Turning the bottles into wedding decor is super easy. Grab a few paint colors that go with your theme and have at them. You can add festive tissue paper flowers like we did here, or use this DIY storybook paper roses tutorial and fill the bottles up with those. Cute, right?

Milk bottle wedding ideas

When you buy the vintage milk jars off the American Bridal site, they come complete with cute cork stoppers. All we did was drill a hole in the center to hold a dropper in place, add a simple label and voila!

Milk bottle wedding ideas

In the end, wedding favors are always fun to personalize. Your guests appreciate it, and really, it’s a fun time for you to get together with friends & family and make a crafting night out of it. A few other of our favorite wedding favors from American Bridal that you can totally get creative with:

Lip balm favors - great for a bridal shower, and all you need to do is design a personalized label

Ceramic jar favors – we see lots of couples giving homemade jam or honey as favors, so how cute would they be in these?

Apothecary jar favors - lavender infused salt? Totally!

There really are endless wedding favors to choose from, so pop over to American Bridal to check ‘em out!

Photos by Scott Clark Photo

8 Apr

Amanda’s wedding in Martha Stewart Weddings magazine!

categories Amanda + Tim's wedding

It’s HEEEREE! I’m so very thrilled to share our wedding day with you in the current issue of Martha Stewart Real Weddings! 13 pages of fun details, our quirky story and a celebration of our love. You can pick up a copy on newsstands or download it on the iPad right now (if you’re antsy like me). It’s filled with pretty dresses, details and creative wedding ideas too.

Here are a few details you can view on their blog, The Bride’s Guide, in the meantime. Woohoo, hope you enjoy!

Martha Stewart Weddings Special Issue